I'm an amateur science enthusiast. I'm not even a professional enthusiast. I don't know anything; I never even passed biology in high school. But I read the science section of the newspaper.

The key thing is managed awareness of your role in the world and history. Think too much and you know you are nothing. Think just enough and you know you are small, but important to some. That's the best you can do.

You know, it's been proven that 35 to 40 hours a year with one-on-one attention, a student can get one grade level higher

The house is a factory.

We have no choice. We need the communion of souls and only here are they awake.

But that's one lifetime." Yeah." But while doing that one I'd want to be able to have done other stuff. Whole other lives- the one where I sail-" I know, on a boat you made yourself.

I was feeling everything too much. Everything pulled at my eyes. I spent hours floating in pools.